Modeling MetaCognition in a Cognitive Architecture

This paper describes how meta-cognitive processes may be captured within a cognitive architecture Clarion. Existing cognitive architectures often lack built-in metacognitive mechanisms. However, meta-cognitive processes are important, in that they are an essential part of cognition and without them, cognition may not function properly. We contend that meta-cognitive mechanisms should be an integral part of cognitive architectures, and thus they have been developed as a part of Clarion. It is demonstrated how human data of metacognitive experiments may be simulated using Clarion. The simulations show that meta-cognitive processes can be adequately captured within the Clarion framework.

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